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The launch of the CV rework is hitting the live server within weeks at this point. We've all seen the USN and IJN CVs in action on supertest and then public test. We all know how they operate.

But we are still completely in the dark about how Kaga, Saipan, Enterprise, and Graf Zeppelin will play. We do know that refunds will be offered, but most of us care less about that and more about what they look like post-rework. I have an Enterprise and a Saipan in my port looking at me with sad puppy eyes.

Has any testing been done on these, even if just secret supertest? I don't recall hearing of any comments from CCs nor any mention from an official livestream (that I know of).

The launch of the CV rework is hitting the live server within weeks at this point. We've all seen the USN and IJN CVs in action on supertest and then public test. We all know how they operate.

But we are still completely in the dark about how Kaga, Saipan, Enterprise, and Graf Zeppelin will play. We do know that refunds will be offered, but most of us care less about that and more about what they look like post-rework. I have an Enterprise and a Saipan in my port looking at me with sad puppy eyes.

Has any testing been done on these, even if just secret supertest? I don't recall hearing of any comments from CCs nor any mention from an official livestream (that I know of).

The launch of the CV rework is hitting the live server within weeks at this point. We've all seen the USN and IJN CVs in action on supertest and then public test. We all know how they operate.

But we are still completely in the dark about how Kaga, Saipan, Enterprise, and Graf Zeppelin will play. We do know that refunds will be offered, but most of us care less about that and more about what they look like post-rework. I have an Enterprise and a Saipan in my port looking at me with sad puppy eyes.

Has any testing been done on these, even if just secret supertest? I don't recall hearing of any comments from CCs nor any mention from an official livestream (that I know of).

Any news?

Enterprise and Graf Zeppelin are T8s so they will be unaffected by the tier changes

how they play is another matter entirely but i think they will be relatively similar to what they were when they were released

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They haven't really said anything yet besides the fact that the tier 7 prem cvs will move to tier 8. I assume they will still have to include features to keep them unique compared to their tech tree counterparts. Such as the torp drop pattern, and maybe the specific planes, or something with consumables. It's all just speculation though.

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I have this GIGANTIC beef with Wargaming putting Saipan at tier 8. USN already have a tier 8 premium CV with the Enterprise. Why would the *only other* USN premium CV also be tier 8? As it stands, tier 8 is already the worst tier for CVs as they frequently get uptiered into tier 10 matches with tier 10 AA.

Saipan should be made into a tier 6 CV. At least this way, the two USN carriers can play at different tiers.

I have this GIGANTIC beef with Wargaming putting Saipan at tier 8. USN already have a tier 8 premium CV with the Enterprise. Why would the *only other* USN premium CV also be tier 8? As it stands, tier 8 is already the worst tier for CVs as they frequently get uptiered into tier 10 matches with tier 10 AA.

Saipan should be made into a tier 6 CV. At least this way, the two USN carriers can play at different tiers.

People buy a T7, made she become a T6 can cause serius problens (sinse T6 are cheap then T8).

Fight vs a TX its can be a problem if the planes be week, its more a matter os stats... The biggest problem to fight a TX in a carrier is the limited amout of planes, i guess we need wait to see...

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People buy a T7, made she become a T6 can cause serius problens (sinse T6 are cheap then T8).

Ah. That's true. I hadn't considered that. Perhaps Wargaming can offer a doubloon compensation for dropping a tier. I'm sure many player would love this since they can play their favorite carrier AND get some free doubloons out of it.

The RN CVs have not been shown in PTS. It is possible that those aren't going to be seen till the February patch, or perhaps be like the RN DD release, where you can pick up 1 or 2 as missions from collection crates, but you didn't have the full tech tree release till a patch later.

I'm interested to see what happens with the premium carriers, but I suspect that's a priority *after* initial balancing of the tech tree ships after live release.

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I'm interested to see what WG does with the Kaga since one of the big selling points was its unique drop pattern. If they eliminate the drop pattern then they need to come up with some other unique gimmick for the Kaga (probably for the Saipan also since it had unique selling points also that wont work well with the new modes).

I have this GIGANTIC beef with Wargaming putting Saipan at tier 8. USN already have a tier 8 premium CV with the Enterprise. Why would the *only other* USN premium CV also be tier 8? As it stands, tier 8 is already the worst tier for CVs as they frequently get uptiered into tier 10 matches with tier 10 AA.

Saipan should be made into a tier 6 CV. At least this way, the two USN carriers can play at different tiers.

I generally agree. It is a better way to split the premiums, but Saipan was a post-war carrier. She never operated the low tier planes on T6. I would bet that Saipan on T8 is flying the same planes as Midway, but has much smaller attack waves and with a smaller overall squadron to counterbalance. Midway currently seems to use 12 plan squadrons of BTD Destroyer torpedo planes and 3 attack in each wave (each with 2 torpedoes). Saipan may for example only have six plane squadrons total and attack with 2 planes per (each with 2 torpedoes). It may also have a limitation like it does now where it can only use TBs or DBs that you select before the match or something like that. That isn't a big issue for T8 opposition although it may be for T6. The big concern for me with Saipan on T8 is it is a truly tiny carrier for T8. She would be quite vulnerable to sniping. I suspect sooner or later USS Wasp will show up as a premium T6. She is similar in size to Ranger and operated similar-era planes.

The bigger issue for me is how are they going to differentiate Enterprise from Lexington since they both used mostly the same planes and were from the same era. Lexington actually sank early in the war and never got late war planes (although Lexington in the game is really her sister USS Saratoga, which did). It wouldn't surprise me if Enterprise's DBs are still using AP bombs or something like that to make her more obviously different from Lexington. They might also do something crazy like have Enterprise run bigger waves of lower-tier planes although to me that runs the risk of giving it too big of an alpha strike capability when they intentionally were trying to move away from that. Good AA ships would have nothing to fear, but low AA ships would get devastated. They could do the same for Kaga (much as she is now) but I would prefer they not for the reasons I stated.

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Id prefer they give the premium CVs a unique flavor that is not directly translated into damage output.

For example, Saipan could be made into a dive bomber and fighter only carrier. Aka its squadron does not have rocket nor torpedo plane option. It would instead have only dive bombers and it would have more fighter deploy options. It would have HE and AP dive bomber options.

Kaga could be made into IJN's long range torpedo dropping ship... by having it receive only torpedo planes that have much longer 'attack run' timers (aka they can get low on the deck for longer periods of time) than any other carrier... but it has no dive bombers, no rockets and only a small amount of fighters. Its torpedoes would also have longer range than any IJN carrier (aka if IJN cvs max out at 7km then Kaga torpedoes would have 10km range).

Overall those changes would allow the premium CVs to be unique yet not have damage output advantage over the other carriers. Dealing with and playing these CVs would require a different approach to gameplay.

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One thing's for certain, don't take the refund. Once the rework is done they'll start putting CVs back in super-containers/santa crates. That decreases the odds you'll win a ship you want. Can't wait to find out what they're going to do with Saipan.